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Auditorium of Milan
If you want to fully understand (or vaguely intuit) what Austria is, you need to refer to a sentence extracted from Danube, a collection of stories written by Claudio Magris and published in 1986, which tells about a journey of a group of friends through the places where historical figures were born, lived or passed.
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Austrianness is the art of escape, wandering, the love of stopping while waiting for a homeland that, as Schubert's wayfarer says, is always sought, foreshadowed and never known. This unknown homeland, in which one lives on a negative account, is Austria, but it is also life, amiable and – on the verge of nothingness – happy
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Alfred Eschwé offers this year a musical excursion that takes us straight from the most remote areas of the (former) Empire to Vienna: from Bartòk's evocative Hungarian Paintings to a Straussian iconic selection, including the Trisch-Trasch Polka and the Emperor's Waltz.
